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  • database machine — (hardware)   A computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database. It is specially designed for database access and is coupled to the main (front-end) computer(s) by a high-speed channel. This contrasts with a database server, which is a computer in a local area network that holds a database. The database machine is tightly coupled to the main CPU, whereas the database server is loosely coupled via the network.
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • diamondback moth — a small moth Plutella xylostella that has diamond-shaped markings on the underside of its front wings that are visible when the wings are folded
  • dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discriminability — The condition of being discriminable.
  • economic embargo — a legal stoppage of commerce, usually taken by one nation or group of nations to harm the economy of another nation or group, often to force a political change
  • el camino bignum — (humour)   /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
  • embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
  • exhibition match — a sports match which is not part of a competition but instead serves the function of demonstrating the skills of the players
  • family balancing — the choosing of the sex of a future child on the basis of how many children of each sex a family already has
  • fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
  • flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
  • global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
  • loop combination — A program transformation where the bodies of two loops are merged into one thus reducing the overhead of manipulating and testing the control variable and branching. Further optimisation of the merged code may then become possible. In horizontal loop combination the bodies of the loops are largely independent so only the loop overhead is saved. Vertical loop combination applies where the results of the first loop are used by the second. Combining the two allows the intermediate results to be used immediately (in registers) rather than requiring them to be stored in an array. The functional equivalent of horizontal and vertical loop combination are tupling and fusion.
  • lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
  • machine readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
  • machine washable — suitable for washing in a washing machine
  • machine-readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
  • mackinaw blanket — a thick woolen blanket, often woven with bars of color, formerly used in the northern and western U.S. by Indians, loggers, etc.
  • magnetic bearing — the bearing of a point relative to that of the nearest magnetic pole.
  • medicine cabinet — cupboard where medication is stored
  • monosyllabically — In single syllables.
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • multi-way branch — switch statement
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • reaction chamber — the chamber in a rocket engine in which the reaction or combustion of fuel occurs
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • semantic tableau — a method of demonstrating the consistency or otherwise of a set of statements by constructing a diagrammatic representation of all the circumstances that satisfy the set of statements
  • simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
  • sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
  • submarine chaser — a small patrol vessel, 100–200 feet (30–60 meters) long, designed for military operations against submarines.
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
  • umbilical hernia — a hernia of the umbilicus.
  • unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
  • unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
  • uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
  • vapor combustion — Vapor combustion is a closed burn system used for treating liquid waste which contains volatile organic compounds.
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